The shipwreck gave Florida's Treasure Coast its name. Schmitt spoke to "CBS Mornings" in July 2015 after his family's business, Booty Salvage, helped find the coins while searching in shallow ...

A Treasure Coast treasure hunter has reached a plea deal for his role in stealing buried treasure worth hundreds of thousands ...

uncovered a treasure trove of 101 gold coins from the wrecks off Florida’s Treasure Coast,” the agency said in a press ...

the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has successfully recovered 37 gold coins stolen from the 1715 Fleet shipwrecks, valued collectively at over $1 million. “This case ...

Fort Pierce salvor Eric Schmitt avoided trial by pleading no contest to charges related to selling three Spanish gold coins ...

The coins came from a grouping of 11 Spanish treasure ships that departed Cuba in 1715, bound for Spain. A hurricane sank them 1,000 feet off Florida’s Treasure Coast in approximately 15 feet of ...

uncovered a treasure trove of 101 gold coins from the wrecks off Florida’s Treasure Coast. The FWC says that of those 101 coins discovered, only 51 were reported correctly and adjudicated while ...

found 52 gold coins worth more than $1 million. Schmitt found the gold while diving about 150 feet off the coast of Fort Pierce in Florida during his yearly treasure-hunting trip with his wife ...

Treasure hunters on Florida’s southeastern coast have discovered 22 silver coins dating to a 1715 Spanish shipwreck, reports Denise Sawyer for CBS12 News. The coins, valued at an estimated $ ...

This team told WOFL-TV they have been looking for treasure for years together off the coast of Indian River County, which notes that some of the artifacts and coins still wash up on Florida ...

Courtesy CBS12 A pair of treasure hunters in Florida say they discovered a trove of Spanish coins from a 1715 shipwreck ... why it’s called the Treasure Coast,” Martinez told the newspaper.

Treasure hunters have found a trove of $4.5 million worth of Spanish gold coins in Florida ... laden Spanish galleons on to reefs off Florida' East Coast, sinking them in the early hours the ...